One of the benefits I gained from my early-career experience as an Industry Analyst was an ability to look at the big picture. When I look around at what’s going on in the tech market right now – and the global economy in general – the tea leaves are telling a pretty clear story. While the general economy has been doing reasonably well since the recovery from COVID – with the big exception of high interest rates and inflation – these past few years have been very tough for both early- and later-stage technology companies. They have had different but related issues. For early-stage companies, f…